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activity of voting or legislating or protesting, and includes everything from informal debates and discussions to practices of consumption and the mundane activities of everyday life. 12 Why a spatial contract ? The term ‘spatial contract’ is a reference to one of the bestknown concepts in Western political thought: the social contract. The philosophical notion of the social contract, which goes back at least to Thomas Hobbes, is a justification of political authority. The social contract understood in this tradition provides the moral and